Lydia Cortes
Find the Form to Love Your Life (Section 2)
I like The want the love querer in one word Takes care of both needs en una palabra Solamente una vez what the rest of the song The rest of the lyrics of that Spanish love song The cut your veins cause I love you more than My own life brand of love song can you imagine Loving so much you’ll kill yourself to prove it Do I love myself enough to kill myself for that For that love huh what say you sitting out there Voyeur of my actions my ramblings my rambling Rose another type of vine is that what rambling Means maybe it does in a rose in a rose in a rose Rambling does that mean it winds itself around Something strangling it or does rambling mean To wander away away eventually given enough ramb To wander to another place even one far far away Where there you think be other bodies to love Bodies that love themselves that love their lives
Editor’s Note: “Find the Form to Love Your Life” is a long poem that we are posting in eleven sections on consecutive Saturdays.
Lydia Cortes is the author of the poetry collections Lust for Lust (Ten Pell Books, 2002) and Whose Place (Straw Gate Books, 2009). Her work appears in the anthologies Puerto Rican Poetry: An Anthology from Aboriginal to Contemporary Times (U Mass Press, 2006) and Breaking Ground: Anthology of Puerto Rican Women Writers in New York 1980-2012 (Editorial Campana, 2012). Recent work has appeared in Upstreet and on the Black Earth Institute’s 30 Days Hath September poetry feature curated by Patricia Spears Jones.
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